Danger Signs Every Parent Should Know

[ann_leckie]

When your child, who is already feeling under the weather, says, "I have to burp but I can't." The next time he opens his mouth...yeah.

And I'd just given him some medicine--he's had a runny nose for a while--and was about to give him more (I said, "Do you feel all right?" His answer, "No." "What hurts?" "My forehead." So orange medicine up next) but instead I was wiping up and taking blankets to the washer and popping open a can of seven up.

Also it is very cold here, and I have microwaved some red wine, and am now wishing I had put cinnamon or an orange slice in it.

Comments

[fishywish.livejournal.com]

Condolences. I just went through it with both of mine. And even though the danger signs were right there in front of me, I still didn't realize it was happening until...yeah, I guess that's why she didn't eat her dinner. But the silver lining? Eight year olds know enough to deposit it into the proper receptacle every time, which is a huge cleanup-saver. (Three year olds, not so much...)

[accordingto-ada.livejournal.com]

Yes, I never understood the concept of intensive coloring in children's medicines. It just made kid vomit harder to clean up.

Now, the young count as a child was very bright -- in mathematics. I considered, however, that he had a problem with prepositions. I would try to get him to deposit bodily fluids into the toilet. Somehow he interpreted that as over the toilet, and mostly over the outside of the toilet. The outside of a toilet that has been barfed on is incredibly hard to clean. All those nooks and crannies. Actually this was the source of one of my Clarion West quotes:

"Cleaning up the blood in the cracks. Whoa. It made me think of...oh you don't want to know."

[rachel-swirsky.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry. :( Karen's Gabby just got over the flu.